I'm so glad we had this link together
Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 2:00PM Decider Joe Reid on the repetitive lie that Oscar shuns popular movies
Interview shared a Winona Ryder interview from 1990. I can't tell you how formative this was for me. I had the photoshoot plastered all over my bedroom. I was obsessed with her quotables.
Playbill Broadway aimed Moulin Rouge! will be trying to cast its Satine (!!!), or at least a temporary Satine for readings and such, on February 17th at an Equity-only audition
MNPP Great Moments in Movie Shelves visits The Royal Tenenbaums game closet
AV Club IMDb is shutting down its message boards
Deadline file this under "it's about time" - Sarah Paulson is finally getting lead roles in features! She'll headline Lost Girls, a serial killer drama in which she plays a mother searching for her daughter
i09 revisits Suspiria before the remake by Luca Guadagnino
The Guardian we need to be listening to Middle Eastern cinema right now
Variety Leslie Mann and John Cho to host this year's Sci-Tech awards for the Academy
Tracking Board Whoa. Carol Burnett, who is 83, might be coming back with a new sitcom. Come on Octogenarians! (See also: Rita Moreno, who is 85 and great on One Day at a Time)
Variety Oh, this is so sad. Sunday in the Park with George won't be eligible for the Tonys so no Jake Gyllenhaal for Best Actor despite the raves
Boy Culture Patrick Wilson didnt get paid for this advertisement
Variety The Weinstein Co will distribute a new Diane Keaton / Brendan Gleeson drama Hampstead from the director of Last Chance Harvey
The Guardian "why I love Emma Stone"
Reader Comments (13)
Ryder for me has been somewhat weird Past Present and probably Future.
Winona such a time capsule of growing up in the 90's,Emma Stone should wish.
^ I really don't understand why we have to put down one woman just to compliment another...
That's why we are different,one person may not understand another.
Joe Reid: Yes, 2016 isn't...the best...year for making this argument. HOWEVER! You're also using skewed, flawed logic. Arrival (because of the weighty iciness) and La La Land (because of the...not great...singing) definitely wouldn't have crossed $100 million without Oscar (Hidden Figures still would have) and what I think Cameron's arguing is that Oscar shouldn't be so obviously refusing to follow the money entirely and seeming to demand, instead, that the money ALWAYS flow toward their tastes. Zootopia would have been a welcome surprise over Hacksaw, right?
Cameron's best years are done. He cares about making Avatar a thing when it never was.
/3rtful: Yeah...Avatar, as in Jim Cameron's, didn't have any staying power. The OTHER Avatar, though? ALL the staying power, even with that M. Night disaster.
I will say that out my own limited experience and from talking to my friends, Winona Ryder is a purely American star. Foreigners do not get the appeal and therefore are not as excited about the comeback. I might be wrong about that but this comes to mind every time her work is discussed. I did appreciate her small role in Black Swan though and felt it was a genius little surprise.
Also Good Luck casting Satine! That should be fun. She'd have to look like a vulnerable otherworldly goddess and be able to act/dance/sing. I can't think of anyone who fits all these requirements. And Nicole was only able to do it because she was obviously working within a production that was in love with her in every way therefore compensated for the vocal/dance shortcomings with lots of glitter and editing. She did deliver an iconic performance though in every sense of the word. That best actress race sounds so weird retrospectively. I wish people had a better sense of what performances will age the best so that they are rewarded accordingly.
I learned about watching movies and writing about movies from my many long discussions with erudite fans on the IMDb boards. Yes, they're troll-havens now, but I am saddened nonetheless.
I love that Decider article. The academy has always nominated mainstream and/or visual films and its not a bad thing that it nominates lower grossing movies too.
Surprised Nat didn't cover the DGA, ASC, or Annies yesterday.. what's up?
... they're covered this morning. I am on the East Coast and when I went to bed they hadn't announced any winners yet.
They should just cast LegeNicole as Satine so she can win that Tony!